Gallstones top to toe: what the radiologist needs to know
- Resource Type
- Authors
- John P. Hynes; Ferdia Bolster; Mark C. Murphy; Ciara Gillespie; Brian Gibney
- Source
- Insights into Imaging, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-14 (2020)
Insights into Imaging
- Subject
- lcsh:Medical physics. Medical radiology. Nuclear medicine
medicine.medical_specialty
lcsh:R895-920
Disease
Gallstones
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
medicine
Pathology
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Pathological
Neuroradiology
Educational Review
Anatomical location
Calculus
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Gallbladder
Biliary
Interventional radiology
medicine.disease
medicine.anatomical_structure
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
030211 gastroenterology & hepatology
Radiology
Presentation (obstetrics)
business
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1869-4101
Gallstone-related disease can have significant associated morbidity and mortality worldwide. The incidence of gallstone-related disease in the Western world is on the increase. There are multiple different pathological manifestations of gallstone disease: the presentation, diagnosis and associated complications of which vary significantly depending on anatomical location. The role of imaging in gallstone-related disease is broad with radiology playing an essential role in the diagnosis, management and follow-up of gallstone-related pathologies. This paper distills the broad range of gallstone-related pathologies into an anatomical map, discussing the disease processes involved at each point along the biliary tree and reviewing the strengths and weaknesses of different imaging modalities for each distinct disease process.